by Carley Smiddy | Jun 27, 2019 | Addiction Treatment & Recovery, Sober Transition & Recovery Resources
Inpatient treatment is a great start to recovery but it’s only a start. Treatment is an opportunity to get away from negative influences, break old habits, learn new coping skills, and begin a healthier way of living. However, it’s unrealistic to expect you can change...
by Carley Smiddy | Jun 6, 2019 | Addiction Recovery, Sober Transition & Recovery Resources
Simply put, recovery capital is everything you have working to your advantage when you’re trying to stay sober. In economic terms, capital is anything you own that makes you more money–your assets. Assets might include factories, copyrights, rental properties,...
by Carley Smiddy | Jun 2, 2019 | Addiction Treatment & Recovery, Sober Transition & Recovery Resources
There’s an ongoing debate in the addiction treatment community about whether relapse should be considered part of recovery. Advocates of this view make some compelling points. For one, a relapse can be extremely discouraging. According to the National Institute on...
by Carley Smiddy | May 22, 2019 | Addiction Recovery, Sober Transition & Recovery Resources
As most of us know, or at least have heard, people tend to experience a crisis of life around middle age which typically deals with issues of regret, family, career, and retirement. There is another crisis, however, that has gained conversational traction within the...
by Carley Smiddy | May 17, 2019 | Addiction Treatment & Recovery, Sober Transition & Recovery Resources
Establishing a social support system in early recovery is one of the most important cornerstones in any recovery program. If we look back to the “support system” that we chose to surround ourselves with while in active addiction we can easily begin to understand the...
by Carley Smiddy | May 7, 2019 | Addiction Treatment & Recovery, Sober Transition & Recovery Resources
As we can see, laid out within 2 of the first 3 steps seems to require not only the acknowledgement of a Higher Power, but also the admission that God can help solve our problems if we gave our will and lives over to God as we understood it. The language involving the...